Comments on: It’s a miracle! Turning water into marbles…

By: adam

adam — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:32 +0000

“” Those look like those moist beads you can get in craft stores for keeping flowers watered.”
Indeed, notice how he doesn’t drop the spheres on the countertop, where the supposed watery spheres would splatter but glass or gelatinous spheres used in a hoax would not.”

yes he does actually, at around 2:35 one of the balls falls out of the container and bounces off lol

By: Scote

Scote — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:29:02 +0000

” Those look like those moist beads you can get in craft stores for keeping flowers watered.”

Indeed, notice how he doesn’t drop the spheres on the countertop, where the supposed watery spheres would splatter but glass or gelatinous spheres used in a hoax would not.

By: Lee Harrison

Lee Harrison — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:44:58 +0000

Looks like he’s using Steve Spangler’s jelly marbles to complete the hoax.

By: Deen

Deen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:44:52 +0000

@Inocculated Mind: “Ionized salt” may also simply be a typo. The container that’s clearly visible behind the text says “iodized salt”, which is quite common.

Still, it looks fake to me too. Much more likely that they created a liquid with an index of refraction that is almost equal to that of glass marbles, which makes the marbles seem to disappear when submerged.

By: Spiv

Spiv — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:50:50 +0000

Inoculated: Sodium bicarbonate is sold in powder form as a pool supply; it looks and feels very calcite-like? I’ve got a few pounds of it around for dissolving ink and wax off of copper etching plates.

Yep, just a hoax. Good call on giving people impossible things to obtain so you can find out how popular your hoax is via a google search.

By: Rob W

Rob W — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:35:07 +0000

“Solid balls”, indeed.

Tip: that’s the “Joker” font they’re using.

By: Inoculated Mind

Inoculated Mind — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:01:47 +0000

LOL. Hoax… you can tell the instant they say ‘ionized salt’… no one who knows chemistry would make that mistake. Those look like those moist beads you can get in craft stores for keeping flowers watered.

Oh yeah, and Calcium Bicarbonate does not exist as a solid.